Month: July 2017

Just plain bad telephone sales service

Saturday 30 July 1664 Wrote many letters by the post to ease my mind of business and to clear my paper of minutes, as I did lately oblige myself to clear every thing against the end of the month. So at night with my mind quiet and contented to bed. This day I sent a side of venison and six bottles of wine to Kate Joyce. There is no doubt that there is a sense of completion when dealing with...

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The Railway Era Celebrated

Thursday 28 July 1664 Pepys has a good day in the office - business looks good - he is content with life My present posture is thus: my wife in the country and my mayde Besse with her and all quiett there. I am endeavouring to find a woman for her to my mind, and above all one that understands musique, especially singing. I notice that when Pepys is content with his work, he finds time to look...

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contracts – the garden from hell

Wednesday 27 July 1664 an insight into the making of contracts - reflections on death - ...and acquainted them with the death of Mr. Alsopp, which Mr. Lanyon had told me this morning, which is a sad consideration to see how uncertain a thing our lives are, and how little to be presumed of in our greatest undertakings.... Pepys shows a real knack of putting things in perspective in a few words....

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Gardens and barking dogs

Monday 25 July 1664 I do miss a day here or there of Pepys Diary but all can be found via the link above. He gone, Mr. Cole (my old Jack Cole) comes to see and speak with me, and his errand in short to tell me that he is giving over his trade; he can do no good in it, and will turn what he has into money and go to sea, his father being dead and leaving him little, if any thing. This I was sorry...

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Hospital meeting – trendy Bristol – Syria film

Saturday 23 July 1664 in which Pepys has a fling and is ashamed of it This was the day I had been waiting on albeit in a neutral state of mind when I hoped to move forward in my role as patients' representative for the Bristol area group of hospitals. My enthusiasm can only last for a certain amount of time and in the last month or so it had waned considerably. Patients for Quality Trauma...

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Where did the time go? plus Ideas for garden layouts

Friday 22 July 1664   click to read. ....We walked to church with him, and then I left them without staying the sermon and straight home by water, and there find, as I expected, Mr. Hill, and Andrews, and one slovenly and ugly fellow, Seignor Pedro, who sings Italian songs to the theorbo most neatly, and they spent the whole evening in singing the best piece of musique counted of all hands in...

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